Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1915, Page 6

OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITO Thé Bee Publishing Comp: BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTIO By carrier per month Ry mall year. and Sunday...... o fly without Sunday.. irg and Sunday.. [ aints of 1 notice of charge of address or com to Omaha Irculation ity in delivery Bee, nt. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft Sapress o postal order. Only two- cent imps fecelved In payment of .fl.{ o eounts. checks, except on Omaha astern exchange, not accepted. P v h Omaha—38 N street netl Bluffa—14 North Main street. Lincoln—% Little Bullal Icn’o-fll earst Bujl ing. New York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue. a. Louis—568 New Bank of Commerce. ‘ashington--72% irteenth 8t., N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, w mmn‘v:-mflnn- ”"“mu‘:fl-"‘" and a APRIL CIRCULATION, 53,406 Nebrasks, Count : ¥ Withamis, cireolation memger of The Bes cof duly sworn, says that the for the month of April, 195, was 1GH' :n,unu Clre‘::‘-u.”-w T, o e i ER, Notary Publie. " Subscribers lenving the city temporarily $ should have The Bee maiied to them. Ade t-flmwnmum-fld Selected by J. M. Towne Bhall to preduce jorm from oui of unshaped stuff Be art—and further, to evoks a soul From form—be nothing? . ~Browning: 'Pippa Passes. $ Vote early! And vote “Yes!" Austrian airmen appear determined to rock the gondola. x | | Next on the list: A muJy safe and sane Fourth of July. Memorial day observers have no kick to res- St —— 3 ~Ambassador Bazanoff says enough in seven words: It will be a long, hard war.” 1 "ot the auction player, the - after carefully studying the cards has con- ‘The Missourl river boats are officlally in- rned until “after the war.' Falure to pro- “to imaginary skippers. ui' in California A span of h of the welght of naturally swells the throng to the land g spirit of the empire & tribute of appreciation well done. 2 £ appeals for commutation of sen- tetice for Leo M. Frank Is subscribed by the ed!- s of nearly sixty of the principal magazines newspapers of the United States. But while name of the editor of The Bee is there, no- ere in the list do we observe the signatures ©f sither of Nebraska's two distingulshed demo- United States senator, who publishes ‘World-Herald, or the secretary of state, who the Commone! § that no daxger Is involved venteen-foot mark. & room in the Leavenworth school build- school. of The Bee compositors, Is set- the appearance of & new boy at club has been urganized with . George W. Woldrege: vies & Johnson for $1400. The yes to secure a cancellation he property. ohn Kinsey had M. Keen has been granted permission | United States and Europe. For the first time in history a great nation finds itself in the peculiar position occupled Iy the United States with relation to the Eurepean nations now at war. At peace with all, and on | friendly terms with each, no material Interest of the United States can be served by the tri- umph of either of the combatants, Aside from traditional inclinations and racial predileetions, the motives for the maintenance of peace and friendly intercourse between this country and the belligerents are stronger now than ever. The interests of every nation in Europe ars bound up to some degree with those of tae United States, and a distinct advantage exists to each to deserve and retain the friendship of this country. Services already performed oy Amerfcans for each. of the belligérents have been great, and the possibilities of the future are Immeasurable in their effect. It would, therefore, seem beyond reason that any of the nations would willingly sacrifice the good feel- ing that exists between this country and all. It s no fault of the United States that the conditions of war have developed to their pres ent stage. This country’s duty to humanity is great, but its duty to its own citizenship is im- perative, and the ability to serve the nations of the world demands that the dignity and influ- ence of the Upited States be maintained. Just Unfinished Business. While quite disturbing to the residents of the valley below, the eruption of Mount Lassen is very likely merely the resumption by naturs of certain activities that changed the whole des- tiny of the western slope of the North American continent in days long gone. The tremendous upheaval that drained the sea from Nebrasks, raised the lush meadows of Wyoming and made them arid piateaus, and turned the verdant downs of Nevada into a sagebrush desert, and finally poured billions of tons of lava over I1daho and Oregon, evidently didn’t entirely do the job on hand. Early man in California saw some wondrous sights, when the contour of the earth wasg changed and the Coast range was thrown up. Modern man has felt some shivers from the same cause, when the tilted strata shift position, and now the mountain belches forth destruction, that we may know the processes of change are still in progress. Mount Lassen’s activity may not be especially majestic nor parteularly portentous, but it is very in- teresting, as indicating that the great scheme of things is still unfinished, Se——— A Blunderbus Tariff, The recent court decision defeating the pro- vision for a 5 per cent discount on duties on ‘merchandise imported in American vessels, and by extending the discount to all imports thus putting a hole to the amount of millfons of dol- Inrs into the treasury, accentuates the blunder- bus character of the democratic tariff bill. This discriminating discount feature was inserted ex- pressly to give that advantage to Amerfcan ves- seols as an encouragement to our merchant ma- rine, and in pursuance of the declaration in the | Baltimore platform favoring restoration of ths seas. But no sooner was nd its prospective faflure to needed revenue f dowed, than attorney general declared this ve, and the democratic customs officlals proceeded to collect the full duties re- gardless ‘whether imported in American or for- olgn vessels, 80 the blunder was sither in the democratic formulation of the law or the demo- cratic administration of it. The setback in (he 5 per cent discount is not the only defect of democratic tariff making. The income tax section has not only fallen short of estimates of probable proceeds, but is like- wise keeping the courts busy deciphering just what s meant. A large corps of experts have been needed to construe the questions of deduc- tions, and then without complete success, and the Income tax schedule will admittedly havy to be patched up by supplementary legisiation. Many other matters of perhaps minor impor- tance to the government, but of real moment to the importer or home manutacturer, arising through obscurities of wording or crude require- ments, are constantly making troudle, and ad- 'wmu blunders are belng disclosed from time me. The unescapable conclusion is that as tarif? bullders the democrats not omly fellow plans drawn on the wrong principle, but likewise are faulty in construction and workmanship, to the cost of both the people affected and the gov- ernment treasury. — Restoring Order in Mexico. President Wilson is reported to be on the point of notifylng the bandit leaders in Mexico | that order must be restored and some form of ! responsible government established in that dis- tracted country. No intimation s given as to what the president proposes in event of his | warning being unheeded, but the Inference is | piain that intervention may follow, Carranza, ! through his agents, sends word that conditions | In Mexico have been misrepresented at Wash- ington, and that the reports concerning the food ply ‘e been too highly colored. It may well be expected that others of factional leaders across the border will assume a simllar attituda for the purpose of justifying themselves in the course they have followed. This will put the issue squarely up to the United States: What is to be done to restore | order in Mexico? —_— ' The southern sea gate to the allied central empires is closed through Italy’s entrance into war. $138,000,000, some of which reached Germany and Austria. proposes to close the northern sea gate via Scandinavian countries, whigh have taken Amerlcan goods valued at $160,000,000 during undoubtedly England now Bogland succeeds in its latest move, more envinies among the neutrals will be made than the play is worth. !by civil service for eighteen years under four ditferent presidents, marks ex-Audfitor Andrews | as a man of distinetion with & unique recor!. | The nearest comparisons we know of is to ba found in another eminent Nebraskan who has chased a high federal office for nearly the same length of time. s THE In the last nine months American ex- ports to Itallan ports rose from $58,000,000 to | nine months of war, a five-fold increase. If | e —— -rohulu.ununuryunum.wj BEE OMAHA Sunday Good— Should Be Better BV. WILLIAM A, SUNDAY s today thoroughly established in the appreciation and tm'.ntmvlt:: the evangelical churches of America as a pre-eminently efficient evangelist vite The general verdict of Protestant opinion is: N man can do these signs except God be with him. & In one especially commanding respeet his preac! Ing constrains sympthy from all who follow Jesus a8 a divine Saviour gl Mr. Sunday with ¢ passionate and supreme con tion offers to his hearers continually a Christ who :.:‘.‘ day here in America, the same as in Pnlo:un:' 200) years ago, “hath authority on earth to forgive sins’ — and declares that “In none other is there salvation Likewiss, his terrific revulsion at the sinfulness of sin and his tremendous urgency on the sinner to come and be made clean in Christ, dominate both regenerate and unregenerate consclences. Moreover, the church owes Mr, Sunday gratitude for his militant unconventionality—his smashing wa: on the prigrishness of custom J Just as in Christ'a time, the church today is boun: | in tradition—manacied by shivering fear of doing any- thing peculiar. Mr. Sunday burst these chains of tim- orous propriety, So he sets thousands of men free— Christians and sinners—to stand out for what thoy bave known for years they ought to stand for. But while the church thus confers on Mr. Bunday its indorsment, a eritical world challenges it to whether by fhis it Approves certain much debated idiosynorasies of his. To this challenge the church can only make candid answer It does believe Mr. Sunday (o be a man with a divine commission. This, however, yields nothing to trifling cavils from the unfriendly and supercilious. It is puerile to carp at Mr. Sunday's slang, his platform antics and such like eccentricities. At the worst, these things are but Dbreaches of taste. The only things in which the church has need (c allow discount from ita favor for Mr. Sunday are sucn things as subtract from his Imitation and interprete- tion of the Master he preaches. Thus the church Is bound to repudiate Mr. Sun- day's irreverence. It Is not his fammlarity with his Lord which evokes criticlsm. A hely intimacy with Christ is every Christian's privilege. Mr. Sunday of- fends not by intimacy but by a happy-go-lucky air of equality with his Master—especially in what he repro- sents to be public prayer. Apparently, Mr. S8unday never yet has heard the mystic whisper, “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ‘ground.” Instead of stealing hushed andawestruck to the gar- ment hem of God, the evangelist bolts into the divine presence like a gossipy nelghbor “dropping around for a chat. This s not reverence, and reverence is vital to religion. Mr, Sunday's chumminess with his Creator 1s no wholesome example. 1t is pointiess to complain of the frequency and freedom with which Mr, Sunday talks of hell. The gospel notp which he emphasizes with this unmis- takable word is a note that ought to have larger place in modern preaching. The present-day preacher fol- lows Paul in reasoning gently of '‘righteousness and self-control,” but evades ‘‘judgment to come'" Mr. Sundays puts it all in. Bug his fault is that in preaching hell he preaches It with gusto instead of anguish and yearni Surely, it was not thus but in heartbreak.that Jesus'uttered his deadful “woes.” Would Jesus gloat over dives in torment? But to Mr. Sunday the tongue that pieads across the abyss for o drop of cooling water is a joke. Gonerations ago the church put belng it the grotesque idea of Jonathan KEdwards that the re- deemed in heaven would rejo'ce at the sight of sinners punished in hell. It certainly cannot today approve in ‘Mr. Bunday the recrudescence of that peint of view. B . The great suma »f money which the psople bestow on Mr. Sunday in “free-wiil offerings’ are nothing to be counted against him. It is only fair to recogmize that he adopted this method for his own compensa- tion when the returns from it were very problematical No sordid motives can be traced in Mr. Sunday's original consecration to evangelistic work. And now the only question worth the #axiety of the church e the question whether the /deceitfulness of riches' which Jesus Christ dreaded so much may have corroded in some degree the mirror in which an evangelist's soul ought to reflect ‘the imageof the The zeal with which Mr. Sunday still maintains his financlal plans against all modification now that he has discovered in them an El Dorado, and the subtle ways in wh'ch from the platform he encudrages ex- travagant gifts, suggoest painfully that he is not today as indifferent to the glitter of gold as when he started on his work. But far the mosy serious defect about Mr, Sunday is the absence of sign that he has been in that school to which Jesus invited his disciples when he said: “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly In heart.” He knows so little what Mary learned at the feet of Jesus that he has even ridiculed tn one of his sermons the religion of the woman whom Jesds praised for having “chosen the good part''—a dissent from the Inspired word of God which the most extreme of higher critics can hardly in any Instance have equaled. And there is at least one text of Paul from which it would be Impossible for the preser® Mr. Sunday to preach: " “I myself entreat you by the meekness and gentle- ness of Christ.” In a word, Mr. Sunday is unprepared to represent to men the tenderness, the and the humil- ity of Jesus—peculiarly not the humility. And that is & serious blank te leave in an evangelistic gospel or in an evangelistic personality, it results not only in un-Christilke harshness to- ward sinners, but (even sadder) in lofty scorn toward fellow Christians. When Mr. Sunday declares the fallure of his brother ministers, he speaks as one | superior to tl.e faulta he denounces—even as the Phati- | soe who prided himself as being “not ae the rest of | | | men." Mr, Sunday preaches emough gospel to bring men Into the kingdem. He does bring men into the king- dom. Therefore the church upholds him. But secing he is ut one and the same time & man of great power, great poesibility and wreat peril, there ought to be “prayer made earnestly of the church unio God for him” that he may be lifted to higher and safer levels. | People and Events A Philadeiphia woman run down by an sutomobile | recovered from the owner 5,000 rfor personal Injuries. The size of the pocket touch insures ome careful driver. A bunch of jolly crooks have beem caged in Pas- sale, N. J, for selling sparrows, dyed yellow, ocanary birds, The yellow peril is not wholly « dream tor | — The Continent—NLending Presvyterian Organ. ot | Twenty-two medical fakirs in New York City drew fines ranging from $150 to $500 eacn for trimming | the sick. They dug up the momey and promised tu quit the game. An ancient wariner of Swampscott, Mass., who has | just died at the age of %, ls credited with having caught more fish then any other man in the world. Members of the Ananias club are commanded to wear mourning for n'nety days, According to the final officiar report, Rev. Billy j Sunday's campaign cost Philadelphia $156,1%. Of this | sum Sunday's share was ®:2068. The tabernacic and maintenance cost S0 and $.37284 was paid out for housing and entertaining the Sunday party Two million people Leard the sermons, 5,000 “hit tie sawdust trail” and 0000 men were organized into Bible classes. The new “honest advertising law' in Missouri woes Inte effect June . It applies to all kinds of advertising, from newspaper ads to bill posters, cir- culars or letters. Any misstatempent of fact or combi- nation of words caleulated to' mislead are punish- able under the act. Whatever the law may do n other directions, jt is certaln to bring considerably | because they are of force between na- The Pees fer International Law, FAIRMONT, Neb, May 31.-To (he Bditor of The Bee: There are certain rules of action which, from time to timo | as civilization has developed, have been opted, prescribed, acquiesced 'n and approved by all the clvilized nations of the world, prescribing and limiting their | conduct towards each other in times of | peace and of war, and vesting (or rather proclaiming) certain rights in them These rules are called international law, tions; hence they cannot be abrogated, changed or added to by any nation, no matter what the necessity or exigency may be; for to be international and binding upon the other nations they muat have been established by and acquisced in by the other nations. One of these rules is that the coast of any nation for a distance out in (he ocean for three miles partakes of the neutral character of that natien; this is called the three-mile Hmit. Another rule s that, outside of this limit the ocean is free to all nations of the world for their vessels and their citizens, whether their citizens are on thelr own neutral vessel or that of another nation, either neutral ‘or bellig- erent. Another rule is that this freedom of the ocean can be interfered with only in time of war and by blockading the ports of a beligerent by the vessels of his enemy, and this must be by vessels on the surface of the ocean. The blockade must be visible and effective. A so-called “war sone” outside the .three-mile limit, and a so-called blockade by submarines is unknown to and contrary to interna- tional law, and whoevéer undertakes it is a wrongdoer and a violator of fnterna- tional law; and who proclaims a blockada on paper and not actually and vistbly around the ports of the enemy, and selzes neutral vessels under it, is a wrongdoer and a violator of international law. I It thus appears that in the above par- ticulars both Germany and England are violators of intermational law. Hence, Germany, in proclaimnig a “war zone™ and attacking by airships or submarines neutral vessels or belligerent merchant vessels, having neutral citizens on board without providing for their safety, and irrespective of the cargo, i& a wrong- doer and no amount of warning to do an unlawful act can make the doing of it right or afford any juetification for doing it. It appears that England, under the paper blockade, in weizing, on the open #ea, neutral vessels destined for a neutral | port is a wrongdoer and such seigure is ‘without justification, Hence, it becomes the duty of our gov- | ernment and the other neutral nations of the world to protest against these vio- lations and cause them to cease. | In judging the acts of the warring na- tions in Wurope, it would be well for our | people to make application of these principles of international law and uphold P & E § Sympathy. to himself, “I sympathize who tolls in this burning £ | i I s £ ix E! he wipes the sweat, with his rough, hard , to the spot, his | soul confined in & ; while from sea to sea, and to shore, T span the globe, rid explore. I have no wife it my peace, no chijdren to feed te; no one on earth but mywself | no friends to favor, no foes | to hate: I've no ambition to satisty, no important place in the public eye; I toil not, neither do I spin, yet I somehow manage my bread to win. But enough, I must quit my shade nest and catch this train that is going west.” The farm hand, pausing to view the A 4 ained his H ig ‘E'E?E g£.2 hurricane; and he muttered, By all the ‘Egyptian gods! such riding as that s a Jeavier strain than grubbing stumps or smashing clods! Poor fellow, | wonder ‘what he would give to enjoy this con- tented life I live. T pity that wretched, homeleas man, who on desperate luck and chance depends; shaping his course by no definite plan, roaming the world without home or friends. While I repose on a soft, clear bed, he lays in a barn or an empty shed, -Mwumm| ‘till the break of day, and in misery ‘wears the long night away. He is clothed in rags, he has little to eat; poor man, his embarrassment is complete.” The laborer took up his work again, still bewalling the rambler's fate, and the rambler riding the cattle train, grieved o'er the farmer's wretched state; and thus their separate ways they went, pitying each other to their heart's con- tent; and eash was happy to think that he was blest as the other could never be. E.0.M, Tactics and Plattorms Disagree. NORTH LOUP, Neb., May 3.-To the Editor of The Bee: Many people cannot understand how an administration can be under the control of high finance and at the same time dictate progressive plat- forms by which the public is kept in | Ignorance of the facts concerning political | conditions. This writer gets letters ac- casionally from some unknown persons ealling in question some of these asser- tions. 1 will suggest that | can produce much more evidence “in black and white’ than & newspaper would care to publish. A few days ago T recelved a letter from & prominent attorney in Nebraska, with several insulting remarks. 1 happened to have in my possession & copy of a con- tract written by that attormey, in which he wag in collusion with a business marn to defrauq enother man by legal methods. The same oll trust that is at work in the Osage is also at work in Nebraska, and any other place where profits are in sight. 1 have before me a franchise for 112,000 water horse power, supposed to be written by the Interior and Agricul- ture departments July 22, 1918 Any per- scn who Wwill carefully cover the docu- ment may readily seo that meither of | those dopartments wrote any part of the franchise. That instrument s “Sixty- third congress, first session, senate docu ment number 7. Evidently the instrument was written by men who have been comcerned for years Ir. the development of water power, and they have ali the legal flourishes of the profession. It was written for court | construction - to protect the ofl trust. Where did the oil trust place the campalign funds in 19127 Three thousand of the | | covered myi people’s telegrams w sent back to with due Lincoln from Baltimore, but how about [AG. edger the departments? We should smile. The ~ Formerly a girl took pride in ac cumulating linen for her linen chest Well? ofl trust weems to have placed much of their money with the democrats and a | #oodiy handful of it to spiit the repub-| | Now ghe collects a lot of graphoplion lican party. How many times have many | records. —Loulsille Courier-Journal of us been whooping it up for the oll| g\, men, said Uncle Eben, “maks trust, thinking that we were in that| ge mistake of keepin' cool when dey ough very time hitting the nail on the head?|to be steamin’ up an' gettin’ somewhet Bome of our statesmen are not all wool | —'Vashington Star. and a yard wide; neither are they WAr-| ..wyen the doctor had _relleved hei ranted not to rip, ravel and run down at|pain, she thanked him with her eves, ' the heel. Their legal tactics do not agree| ‘Well, I shouldn't care for that kin Y cyes -Baltimore Amarican with their platforme of an cye-deul 1__.‘ »| WALTER JOHNSON “Can't 1 sell_you one of our handsome —_— | lounging coats” lll ed the clerk tooki “No _use,” replied the man, jooking SUNNY GEMS. | avound; “my wife won't let me loung: - arsund the house. ''~Yonkers Statesman Yunkee—It someone werh so ill-adviscd ox as to call you a liar, Colonel, in what lght JUNE. would you regard the act? Kentucky Colonel-1 would regard it P 8imply as a form of suiclde, sah.—Dallas | gong of birds and scent of roses News. Gladden the heart when June is Here rgotten, all the woes of winter, Naught but gladness when June draws near Ttoses and iilies both blooming, Bright sunshine thelr beautles disclosc | "Tia not well to scorn the Iily, Because vou have knelt to the rose | Rare the glow of early morning, Soft the tint, of the pale moonbeam Fairer yet, a loved cne sleeping In the folds of a hanpy dream Never night. but day will follow. er darkness—but dawn will ensue grief but time will lighten, Never cloud but the sun comes thio Then cheerily sing and rejoice, “There's u burglar in the house,” she | With huzzas and with biithsome tune y Let's weicome the season of Joy, The season that usher: in June, JOSEPH CARR THOMAS Do You Read Labels? Domestic science teachers and food authorities are urging the housewife to carefully read the labels on all food articles. The National Pure Food Law compels food manufacturers to print the ingredients of their products on the label, and in this way enables consumers to distin- guish healthful foods from those which may be deleterious. High-grade baking powders are made of pure cream of tartar, derived from grapes. Royal Bak- ing Powder is a type of the highest! grade. It is healthful beyond a doubt and the safest and best s to use. The low-grade baking powders are made from alum, a mineral acid salt. Most physicians condemn their use in food. Consumers can learn the char- acter of the baking powder by referring to the labél, which must state whether the contents include cream of tartar, alum or phosphate. . ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. New York cwnmars HORLICK'S Round Package THE ORIGINAL Wedo not make“milk, - Skim Milk.mCondenuflmw Milk, eto. Butonty HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Made from eclean, full-cream milk L Dy Ju, 0 pow water. rood-fifinkom;;r.xll Mu.l. x Used for over a Quarter Century Uw.:fl hol’l‘fl.: Paokage Home SUMMER EXCURSIONS TICKETS ON SALE DAILY VIA CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, RAILWAY ROUND TRIPS FROM OMAHA; -‘Tno ES { New York Oity. . Bar Harbor, - Me. Norfolk, Va, X Boston, Mass. . Pnn;:md. ;le‘ y Buffalo, N, Y. Quebec, ‘Que, . Toronto, Ont v Tickets on sale via differential lines at somewhat Jow. 3 return limit 60 days, liberai stopover pflvflel“f ‘R:;u::\ti..r;n::nt.«: many other summer resorts in Canada, New England, New York State, Northern Michigan and the W iscdnsin Lake Country, as well as delightful cruises on the Great Lakes and combined rall and water diverse route tours to New York and Boston. For complet. information. folders, etc., call on or address (i W. E. BOOK, City Passenger Agent, C. & St. P, Ry, 1817 Farnam 8t., Omaha, Neb. Agents for all steamship lines. ~